A place for my thoughts and writing. If I'm not cut out for an Oscar, then writing might get me that Pulitzer I've been eyeing.

We seem to be having a moment of cultural confusion about teacher-on-student sex. Many — I would even venture most — of us are prettysure that grown-ass people should not be having sex with teenagers. Sadly, the dissenters are all judges and newspaper columnists. The Washington Post, just as an example, published an op-ed over the weekend in which someone opined that she didn’t think it was such a big deal for teachers to sleep with students. In a particularly unfortunate choice, she chose to venture that opinion in the context of last week’s horrifying case of a man sentenced to just 30 days (though it looks like that will be extended) in the rape of his 14-year-old student, who later committed suicide. To support her view that the controversy was overblown, she made appeals to authority like, “I’ve been a 14-year-old girl, and so…